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Lone Butte Ranch, Arizona

22 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1913 and the latest in 1981. It stands in the St. Johns census division. It lies in ZIP code area 85339. The Survey maps it on the Pima Butte quadrangle. It stands 1,112 feet above sea level.

Lone Butte Ranch within Maricopa County

Topographic sheets covering this place

12 surveys from 22 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

252 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 252 fires within 5 miles of Lone Butte Ranch between 1992 and 2020, burning about 2,973 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 34 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined157
Debris and open burning39
Arson/incendiarism34
Equipment and vehicle use7
Smoking6
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Fireworks2
Other causes2
Natural1
Railroad operations and maintenance1
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 1992Missing data/not specified/undetermined300 acresPima AgencyESTRELLA
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyEQUESTRIAN
22 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresPima AgencyCAKEWALK
21 September 1998Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyBURN OUT
19 September 2001Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyYELLOW
13 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acrePima AgencyHOOVER
13 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreArizona Department of Forestry and Fire Management - State OfficeAZ-111674
13 September 2006Debris and open burning2.0 acresPima AgencyPOWERLINE

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Maricopa County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gila Crossing7.0 miles26
West Chandler7.4 miles21
Crestview7.4 miles21
Suncrest Villas Chandler7.5 miles21
Prado del Sol7.6 miles21
Saint Johns Mission7.8 miles26
Village of Gila Springs7.9 miles21
Komatke8.0 miles26

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikipedia article on Lone Butte RanchAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q28222495The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 7290. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.